A year and a half ago, in the local subReddit for my city, I wrote a complaint:My regular gas station for the past 16 years has now installed video that talks to you while you’re pumping gas. … [read more]

ᐅ Every time you hit the space bar, you get a new cute dog video. This is why Tim Berners-Lee and Al Gore worked so hard to invent the internet. … [read more]

A group email to my family and few friends, which I intend to send a month before my next birthday: 
My birthday is approaching and I am cordially asking you not to notice. … [read more]

Me and my brother Clay have movie nights once a month, but we squeezed in an extra movie for Memorial Day: Pride of the Yankees, the 1942 biopic of Lou Gehrig. … [read more]

In the diner’s dining room, the walls are tiled to match the floor — big checkerboard on the floor, smaller checkerboard pattern on the walls. Bob can’t hammer a nail into the tile, so these checkerboards are the ambiance, and the walls are mostly bare.The … [read more]

Leftovers & links I’ve found interesting, but your mileage may vary:

ᐅ  It was 1994, and I was in San Francisco’s downtown library because they had internet access. … [read more]

ᐅ  I’ve only jogged a quarter of a mile, but boy is my index finger tired.

ᐅ  Amazon is introducing what it calls “wellness cubicles” for its employees, where overworked and overstressed workers can lock themselves away and scream and cry for a few minutes, before returning refreshed to their work. … [read more]

For
some people, I’ve heard, happiness comes from hard work, but I wouldn’t
know anything about that. Some folks find happiness in helping others,
and I respect that and give a little to United Way, which makes me
momentarily happy, sure. … [read more]

Closing
schools and switching to ‘distance learning’ is probably bad for kids’
education, but it’s gotta be safer than trying to keep schools open during a pandemic.And … [read more]

More than 5,000,000 people have watched this video. It’s two and a half minutes of authoritative instructions for folding a fitted sheet into a neat, compact rectangle. … [read more]